Two brief points on Mick's contribution:
1 -- The volume number of the special issue he references is 22 (not 23).
2 -- Presumably modesty forbade Mick to mention his own note in that journal
(pp. 277-279) where essential points are put clearly, dispassionately and
courteously.
mick common wrote:
> Given that the 'environment' has now entered the exchanges in regard to the
> scientific status of economics and particularly in regard to the
> specification and use of the 'Solow' production function, I thought that it
> might be useful to draw attention to a special issue of Ecological
> Economics, September 1997, Vol 23, No 3. The title of the special issue is
> 'The Contribution of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen'. It contains a paper by Daly
> which repeats Georgescu Roegen's critique of Solow's 1974 paper on the
> economics of resources, responses from Solow and Stiglitz, and commentary on
> this exchange by economists and others. The matters addressed, if not
> resolved, are rather more fundamental to the thrust of Scott's claims -about
> economics rather than some economists - than those raised in the
> Solow-Shaikh exchange, I think.
>
> Mick Common
> Graduate School of Environmental Studies
> University of Strathclyde
> Wolfson Building
> 106 Rottenrow East
> Glasgow G4 ONW
> Scotland
> Phone 0141 548 4671
> Fax 0141 552 5498
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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